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Definitive leaf-eared mouse
Conservation status

Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Phyllotis
Species: P. definitus
Binomial name
Phyllotis definitus
Osgood, 1915

The definitive leaf-eared mouse (Phyllotis definitus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in west central Peru, in rocky and shrub-covered areas at elevations between 2600 and 3000 m.

References

  1. ^ Zeballos, H.; Vivar, E. (2018). "Phyllotis definitus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T17225A22341847. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T17225A22341847.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  • Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Taxon identifiers
Phyllotis definitus


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